Thursday, March 26
Berkeley, Calif.
10:00 p.m. ET
Columbia
at
California
Photo by: Columbia University Athletics / Josh Wang
(4) Columbia Visits (3) Cal for the WBIT Quarterfinals Thursday Night
3/25/2026 3:11:00 PM | Women's Basketball
First meeting between the two programs in two decades
BERKELEY, Calif. – No. 4 seed Columbia (22-8, 11-3 Ivy) travels to No. 3 seed California (21-14, 9-9 ACC) for the Quarterfinals of the Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament. The two teams meet Thursday night at Haas Pavilion. Opening tip is scheduled for 10 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. local.
• Thursday's Quarterfinal matchup will be available on ESPN+ and the ESPN App. Chris Sylvester and Ashlee Jones will have the call. Live Stats are available on Stat Broadcast. Fans can also keep up with the action by following @CULionsWBB on X and Instagram.
OPENING TIPS
• This is Columbia's first and only game against California since December 3, 2005, when the Lions and Bears met in the Contra Costa Times Classic. Lavine Family Head Coach of Women's Basketball Megan Griffith, then a junior captain for the Lions, started and played 32 minutes in that game, going for five points, five rebounds, three steals and two assists. The Bears, who went on to earn an at-large bid to that year's NCAA Tournament, won the game, 71-36.
• Columbia has dominated each of its first two games in the WBIT, crushing St. John's, 74-26, and leading by as many as 34 in an 86-57 road win at North Dakota State. The Lions are averaging 80 points, shooting 51.1% from the field, outscoring opponents by 38.5 points, outrebounding them by 12.0, averaging 15.0 steals and hold a turnover margin of +9.0. Riley Weiss (21.5), Perri Page (18.5) and Mia Broom (17.5) have led the scoring. The trio combined for 70 points against NDSU, with Broom scoring a career-high 26, Page scoring 23 and Weiss netting 21.
• AP All-America Honorable Mention and Ivy League Player of the Year Riley Weiss leads Columbia in scoring at 20 points per game. She ranks top 20 in the NCAA in scoring average and 3-pointers made per game (2.87). She is also the Ivy League leader in total threes (86), 3-point percentage (36.9%) and total field goals made (216).
• Weiss is one point from becoming the third player in program history to score 600 in a season. Abbey Hsu '24CC did it twice (2022-23, 2023-24) and Camille Zimmerman '18CC did it as a junior in 2017-18. Hsu owns the program record of 611 points in a season (2023-24). Weiss is 13 points from eclipsing that mark.
• Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Perri Page leads the league in steals (75) and steals per game (2.5). She is three steals from Columbia's single-season record of 78, set last season by Kitty Henderson. Page and UConn's Sarah Strong are the only two players in the country to average at least 14 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.5 steals, 2.0 assists and shoot at least 50 percent from the field.
• This is Columbia's fifth straight national postseason tournament appearance. The Lions made their debut in the 2022 WNIT and advanced to the Great Eight. The next season, they made a run all the way to the WNIT Championship Game against Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse. Columbia then earned its first NCAA Tournament bid in 2024, falling to Vanderbilt, 66-62. Last year, they defeated Washington in the First Four, 63-60.
ROAD WARRIORS
• Columbia is 12-1 (.923) in true road games this season, which is the fifth-best road record in the country. Only UConn (12-0), UCLA (9-0), North Dakota State (12-0) and Louisville (9-0) are undefeated in such games.
• When including neutral-site games, the Lions are 13-4 (.765). They went 1-2 at the Cancun Challenge, defeating eventual Summit League Tournament Champion South Dakota State, 80-67. They also suffered a narrow, 95-92, loss to Kansas State and played UNC close, trailing by just two with 2:00 left in the third.
• Columbia won 16 straight true road games from Dec. 21, 2024 - Jan. 30, 2026, which was the longest active "away" winning streak in the country. The streak did not include "neutral" site games.
• The Lions went 12-0 in true road games during the 2025 calendar year and were the only team in the nation to post an undefeated record.
• Columbia defeated then-No. 19 Princeton, 73-67, on Jan. 30, 2026 to extend the streak to 16 games.
• Penn ended the streak with a 64-55 win over Columbia the next night, Jan. 31, at the Palestra.
RECORD BOOK TRACKER
• Perri Page enters the game with 522 career rebounds. She became the 17th player in program history to reach 500 rebounds in the regular season finale against Harvard (Mar. 7). She is 14 away from the top 15.
• Page is third in single-season steals (71). She is seven away from the record of 78 by Kitty Henderson '25CC.
• Weiss's 599 points this season are the fourth-most in program history. The No. 7 spot is owned by her as well, scoring 553 last season. Only Camille Zimmerman '18CC and Abbey Hsu '24CC have reached 600.
• Weiss (1,366) is No. 4 on Columbia's all-time scoring list. She passed Tori Oliver (1,337, 2013-17) in the WBIT First Round win over St. John's, and passed Kitty Henderson (1,350, 2021-25) in her 21-point game at NDSU.
• Weiss (486) is No. 7 all-time in field goals made.
• Weiss (225) is 10th in Ivy League history in three-pointers made. She passed Brown's Sophie Bikofsky (2001-05) in the win over NDSU (Mar. 22). The No. 9 spot is owned by Addie Micir (240, Princeton, 2007-11).
• Perri Page (156) is sixth all-time at Columbia in steals. She passed head coach Megan Griffith '07CC (151) with two steals in Columbia's WBIT First Round win over St. John's (Mar. 19).
• Susie Rafiu (51.7%) is No. 4 all-time in field goal percentage. Page ranks seventh (50.2%).
NDSU POSTGAME NOTES (Mar. 22)
• Columbia's 56 points in the first half were its most in a half in program history. It was the team's first 50-point half since Dec. 1, 2022, when the Lions led Marist 54-23 at halftime and went on to win, 103-54.
• Three Lions scored 20+ points in the same game for the first time since March 1, 2019, when Janiya Clemmons (23), Sienna Durr (22) and Riley Casey (20) did it in a 93-62 win over Brown.
• Mia Broom hit career-highs in points (26), field goals made and attempted (10-20) and three-pointers made and attempted (5-9). Her previous career scoring high was 16 this season at Dartmouth (Feb. 21).
• Perri Page tied career-highs in field goals made (11) and assists (5), and had a career game shooting (11-14, 78.6%).
• Columbia shot 50% or better from the field for the ninth time this season.
• Hilke Feldrappe played a career-high 24 minutes
• Weiss tallied her 30th career 20-point game.
• Weiss (599) passed Ellen Bossert '86BC (598) for fourth on Columbia's single-season scoring list. She also moved to third on in single-season field goals (216).
• Weiss passed Kitty Henderson '25CC (1,350 points) for fourth on Columbia's all-time scoring list.
• Page climbed to second in single-season steals (75).
WEISS IS NICE
• Ivy League Player of the Year Riley Weiss is one of three players in the NCAA to score 38+ points in multiple games this season. The other two are Iowa State's Audi Crooks and Ohio State's Jaloni Cambridge.
• Weiss is the first player in the NCAA since Caitlin Clark (Iowa) and Madison Conner (TCU) to have multiple games with 9+ made threes in a single season. Clark and Conner did it during the 2023-24 season.
• In her 38-point performance at Cornell (Feb. 7), Weiss tied the Columbia record with nine made threes. It is the second time she has made 9+ threes in a game this season. The other came in her record-breaking 40-point performance against Dartmouth.
• Weiss is a finalist for the L'Cheisman Award, presented to the top Jewish athlete in the country by the Manischewitz Athletic Honors Society.
• Weiss earned six Ivy League Player of the Week selections, becoming the seventh player in league history to earn as many in a season. She is a two-time Met Basketball Writers Association Women's Div. I Player of the Wee, a USBWA Women's National Player of the Week in January, twice named an AP Honorable Mention Player of the Week (Feb. 17, Mar. 3), and named to the NCAA Starting 5 of the Week (Jan. 27).
ALL-AMERICAN BUCKET
• Riley Weiss was named an AP All-America Honorable Mention, as well as a Regional Finalist for the WBCA Coaches' All-America Teams. She is the third player in program history to earn All-America Honors, joining two-time All-American Abbey Hsu '24CC (2022-23, 2023-24) and Judie Lomax '10BC (2009-10).
SENIOR CAPTAINS
• Susie Rafiu and Perri Page are Columbia's only two seniors and co-captains. In their time at Columbia, the Lions have gone a combined 97-28 (.776), including a run to the 2023 WNIT Championship Game, Columbia's first NCAA Tournament selection in 2024, and first NCAA Tournament win in 2025.
• Entering the WBIT Quarterfinals, Rafiu has played in 106 career games and made 73 starts. She has totaled 640 points, 393 rebounds, 110 assists, 87 steals and 44 blocks. She ranks No. 4 in Columbia women's basketball history in field goal percentage at 51.7% for her career.
• Page has played in 109 games and made 59 starts in her career, including all 30 starts this season. She has totaled 886 career points, 522 rebounds, 156 steals, 138 assists and 28 blocks. Page ranks No. 6 at Columbia in career steals, No. 7 in field goal percentage (50.2%) and 17th in rebounds.
#EDGE
• Since Megan Griffith became the head coach of the Lions in 2016, the program's motto has been "EDGE" which stands for "Energy, Discipline, Grit and Excellence."
ABOUT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
• Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. One of eight members of the Ivy League, Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields.
COLUMBIA-BARNARD ATHLETIC CONSORTIUM
• Women's basketball at Columbia began in 1984-85, one year after the creation of the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium. Two years later, Columbia became an NCAA Div. I program (1986-87). Prior to the formation of the consortium, the women's basketball program competed at neighboring Barnard College as the Barnard Bears.
• The creation of the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium in 1983 was an unprecedented endeavor. Made in tandem with Columbia's decision to become coed, a request to the NCAA allowed the two schools to form an athletic consortium, making Barnard the only women's college in the country whose students could compete on Division I athletics teams.
• Columbia currently has three players on the team who attend Barnard College: Hilke Feldrappe, Blau Tor and Alicia Mitchell.
FOLLOW THE LIONS
For the latest on the Columbia women's basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
Thursday's winner advances to Wichita, Kansas, the site of this year's WBIT Semifinals and Championship Game. The semifinals are Monday, March 30, followed by the championship on Wednesday, April 1. All games in Wichita will be played at Charles Koch Arena.
GAME COVERAGE• Thursday's Quarterfinal matchup will be available on ESPN+ and the ESPN App. Chris Sylvester and Ashlee Jones will have the call. Live Stats are available on Stat Broadcast. Fans can also keep up with the action by following @CULionsWBB on X and Instagram.
OPENING TIPS
• This is Columbia's first and only game against California since December 3, 2005, when the Lions and Bears met in the Contra Costa Times Classic. Lavine Family Head Coach of Women's Basketball Megan Griffith, then a junior captain for the Lions, started and played 32 minutes in that game, going for five points, five rebounds, three steals and two assists. The Bears, who went on to earn an at-large bid to that year's NCAA Tournament, won the game, 71-36.
• Columbia has dominated each of its first two games in the WBIT, crushing St. John's, 74-26, and leading by as many as 34 in an 86-57 road win at North Dakota State. The Lions are averaging 80 points, shooting 51.1% from the field, outscoring opponents by 38.5 points, outrebounding them by 12.0, averaging 15.0 steals and hold a turnover margin of +9.0. Riley Weiss (21.5), Perri Page (18.5) and Mia Broom (17.5) have led the scoring. The trio combined for 70 points against NDSU, with Broom scoring a career-high 26, Page scoring 23 and Weiss netting 21.
• AP All-America Honorable Mention and Ivy League Player of the Year Riley Weiss leads Columbia in scoring at 20 points per game. She ranks top 20 in the NCAA in scoring average and 3-pointers made per game (2.87). She is also the Ivy League leader in total threes (86), 3-point percentage (36.9%) and total field goals made (216).
• Weiss is one point from becoming the third player in program history to score 600 in a season. Abbey Hsu '24CC did it twice (2022-23, 2023-24) and Camille Zimmerman '18CC did it as a junior in 2017-18. Hsu owns the program record of 611 points in a season (2023-24). Weiss is 13 points from eclipsing that mark.
• Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Perri Page leads the league in steals (75) and steals per game (2.5). She is three steals from Columbia's single-season record of 78, set last season by Kitty Henderson. Page and UConn's Sarah Strong are the only two players in the country to average at least 14 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.5 steals, 2.0 assists and shoot at least 50 percent from the field.
• This is Columbia's fifth straight national postseason tournament appearance. The Lions made their debut in the 2022 WNIT and advanced to the Great Eight. The next season, they made a run all the way to the WNIT Championship Game against Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse. Columbia then earned its first NCAA Tournament bid in 2024, falling to Vanderbilt, 66-62. Last year, they defeated Washington in the First Four, 63-60.
ROAD WARRIORS
• Columbia is 12-1 (.923) in true road games this season, which is the fifth-best road record in the country. Only UConn (12-0), UCLA (9-0), North Dakota State (12-0) and Louisville (9-0) are undefeated in such games.
• When including neutral-site games, the Lions are 13-4 (.765). They went 1-2 at the Cancun Challenge, defeating eventual Summit League Tournament Champion South Dakota State, 80-67. They also suffered a narrow, 95-92, loss to Kansas State and played UNC close, trailing by just two with 2:00 left in the third.
• Columbia won 16 straight true road games from Dec. 21, 2024 - Jan. 30, 2026, which was the longest active "away" winning streak in the country. The streak did not include "neutral" site games.
• The Lions went 12-0 in true road games during the 2025 calendar year and were the only team in the nation to post an undefeated record.
• Columbia defeated then-No. 19 Princeton, 73-67, on Jan. 30, 2026 to extend the streak to 16 games.
• Penn ended the streak with a 64-55 win over Columbia the next night, Jan. 31, at the Palestra.
RECORD BOOK TRACKER
• Perri Page enters the game with 522 career rebounds. She became the 17th player in program history to reach 500 rebounds in the regular season finale against Harvard (Mar. 7). She is 14 away from the top 15.
• Page is third in single-season steals (71). She is seven away from the record of 78 by Kitty Henderson '25CC.
• Weiss's 599 points this season are the fourth-most in program history. The No. 7 spot is owned by her as well, scoring 553 last season. Only Camille Zimmerman '18CC and Abbey Hsu '24CC have reached 600.
• Weiss (1,366) is No. 4 on Columbia's all-time scoring list. She passed Tori Oliver (1,337, 2013-17) in the WBIT First Round win over St. John's, and passed Kitty Henderson (1,350, 2021-25) in her 21-point game at NDSU.
• Weiss (486) is No. 7 all-time in field goals made.
• Weiss (225) is 10th in Ivy League history in three-pointers made. She passed Brown's Sophie Bikofsky (2001-05) in the win over NDSU (Mar. 22). The No. 9 spot is owned by Addie Micir (240, Princeton, 2007-11).
• Perri Page (156) is sixth all-time at Columbia in steals. She passed head coach Megan Griffith '07CC (151) with two steals in Columbia's WBIT First Round win over St. John's (Mar. 19).
• Susie Rafiu (51.7%) is No. 4 all-time in field goal percentage. Page ranks seventh (50.2%).
NDSU POSTGAME NOTES (Mar. 22)
• Columbia's 56 points in the first half were its most in a half in program history. It was the team's first 50-point half since Dec. 1, 2022, when the Lions led Marist 54-23 at halftime and went on to win, 103-54.
• Three Lions scored 20+ points in the same game for the first time since March 1, 2019, when Janiya Clemmons (23), Sienna Durr (22) and Riley Casey (20) did it in a 93-62 win over Brown.
• Mia Broom hit career-highs in points (26), field goals made and attempted (10-20) and three-pointers made and attempted (5-9). Her previous career scoring high was 16 this season at Dartmouth (Feb. 21).
• Perri Page tied career-highs in field goals made (11) and assists (5), and had a career game shooting (11-14, 78.6%).
• Columbia shot 50% or better from the field for the ninth time this season.
• Hilke Feldrappe played a career-high 24 minutes
• Weiss tallied her 30th career 20-point game.
• Weiss (599) passed Ellen Bossert '86BC (598) for fourth on Columbia's single-season scoring list. She also moved to third on in single-season field goals (216).
• Weiss passed Kitty Henderson '25CC (1,350 points) for fourth on Columbia's all-time scoring list.
• Page climbed to second in single-season steals (75).
WEISS IS NICE
• Ivy League Player of the Year Riley Weiss is one of three players in the NCAA to score 38+ points in multiple games this season. The other two are Iowa State's Audi Crooks and Ohio State's Jaloni Cambridge.
• Weiss is the first player in the NCAA since Caitlin Clark (Iowa) and Madison Conner (TCU) to have multiple games with 9+ made threes in a single season. Clark and Conner did it during the 2023-24 season.
• In her 38-point performance at Cornell (Feb. 7), Weiss tied the Columbia record with nine made threes. It is the second time she has made 9+ threes in a game this season. The other came in her record-breaking 40-point performance against Dartmouth.
• Weiss is a finalist for the L'Cheisman Award, presented to the top Jewish athlete in the country by the Manischewitz Athletic Honors Society.
• Weiss earned six Ivy League Player of the Week selections, becoming the seventh player in league history to earn as many in a season. She is a two-time Met Basketball Writers Association Women's Div. I Player of the Wee, a USBWA Women's National Player of the Week in January, twice named an AP Honorable Mention Player of the Week (Feb. 17, Mar. 3), and named to the NCAA Starting 5 of the Week (Jan. 27).
ALL-AMERICAN BUCKET
• Riley Weiss was named an AP All-America Honorable Mention, as well as a Regional Finalist for the WBCA Coaches' All-America Teams. She is the third player in program history to earn All-America Honors, joining two-time All-American Abbey Hsu '24CC (2022-23, 2023-24) and Judie Lomax '10BC (2009-10).
SENIOR CAPTAINS
• Susie Rafiu and Perri Page are Columbia's only two seniors and co-captains. In their time at Columbia, the Lions have gone a combined 97-28 (.776), including a run to the 2023 WNIT Championship Game, Columbia's first NCAA Tournament selection in 2024, and first NCAA Tournament win in 2025.
• Entering the WBIT Quarterfinals, Rafiu has played in 106 career games and made 73 starts. She has totaled 640 points, 393 rebounds, 110 assists, 87 steals and 44 blocks. She ranks No. 4 in Columbia women's basketball history in field goal percentage at 51.7% for her career.
• Page has played in 109 games and made 59 starts in her career, including all 30 starts this season. She has totaled 886 career points, 522 rebounds, 156 steals, 138 assists and 28 blocks. Page ranks No. 6 at Columbia in career steals, No. 7 in field goal percentage (50.2%) and 17th in rebounds.
#EDGE
• Since Megan Griffith became the head coach of the Lions in 2016, the program's motto has been "EDGE" which stands for "Energy, Discipline, Grit and Excellence."
ABOUT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
• Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. One of eight members of the Ivy League, Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields.
COLUMBIA-BARNARD ATHLETIC CONSORTIUM
• Women's basketball at Columbia began in 1984-85, one year after the creation of the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium. Two years later, Columbia became an NCAA Div. I program (1986-87). Prior to the formation of the consortium, the women's basketball program competed at neighboring Barnard College as the Barnard Bears.
• The creation of the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium in 1983 was an unprecedented endeavor. Made in tandem with Columbia's decision to become coed, a request to the NCAA allowed the two schools to form an athletic consortium, making Barnard the only women's college in the country whose students could compete on Division I athletics teams.
• Columbia currently has three players on the team who attend Barnard College: Hilke Feldrappe, Blau Tor and Alicia Mitchell.
FOLLOW THE LIONS
For the latest on the Columbia women's basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
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